Timeline for how to find non-interactive function equivalents of elisp interactive functions
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| Jun 14, 2016 at 21:41 | vote | accept | Sagar Jha | ||
| Jun 14, 2016 at 5:05 | comment | added | phils |
Avoiding unwanted side-effects is a common reason. e.g. a command which automatically pushes to the mark ring as an interactive convenience before moving point would generally be inappropriate to call in non-interactive save-excursion-wrapped code.
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| Jun 14, 2016 at 3:51 | comment | added | mike | Absolutely. Most (nearly all) of the time you'll just want to use the function that seems most obvious. If you're starting out writing functions in Emacs Lisp, try recording a Macro and then peeking inside it. I believe that these comments about using other functions are just tips/advice: it's not wrong to use them, even if the comment says it is, there's just probably a more efficient way. | |
| Jun 13, 2016 at 22:24 | history | answered | phils | CC BY-SA 3.0 |